Mo, Timothy

Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fictio

Language policy, 'Asia's world city' and anglophone Hong Kong writing

Hong Kong's official language policy of 'biliteracy' (Chinese and English) and 'trilingualism' (Cantonese, Putonghua, English), announced after the reversion to China in 1997, claims to address actualities of language use in the territory, remove inequities between English and Chinese, and consolidate the linguistic platform to launch Hong Kong as 'Asia's World City'. Public discussion of and controversy over this policy immediately followed, and have continued in the past decade. But they have tended to focus on the implementation of the policy in education, specifically the medium of instruction in schools, to the exclusion of most other areas of language use. Drawing on recent examples of translingual practice in literary writing, this essay argues first that such actually existing practices are far more verbally nuanced, self-knowing and self-reflexive than the official policy would allow, and second, that they instantiate Hong Kong's identity as 'Asian', which challenges both the official and public focus on Chinese and English. The 'world' and 'world city' that emerge from such writing are historically located in the transition before and after 1997, when the writers acquired their languages in schools. They are also provisional, generated by a poeisis of experimentation that attends to cultural change as language change in - and as - everyday life. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.postprin

Imperial Globalization and Colonial Transactions: "African Lugard" and the University of Hong Kong

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A question of belonging: Reading Jean Arasanayagam through nationalist discourse

Jean Arasanayagam's writing, arising from a unique confluence of what can be considered minoritized identities in Sri Lanka (Burgher and Tamil), provides critical insights into the ways in which a marginalized consciousness seeks to carve a niche for itself within an exclusive, majoritarian nationalist discourse. Such minority self-fashioning is often seen in terms of a paradigm of resistance that deconstructs the dominant or hegemonic national discourse and renders identity mobile and fluid. However, we argue that Arasanayagam's writing, rather than being "post-national", is heavily invested in the idea of national belonging. Through close readings of a selection of poems, drawn from her earliest published work to recent writing, we explore the ambiguities and contradictions arising out of Arasanayagam's desire for a self-identity in what can be loosely termed a Sri Lankan national imaginary. Copyright © 2006 SAGE Publications.postprin

Frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles

Objective: To review the outcomes of frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles. Design: Retrospective review. Setting: Tertiary assisted reproduction centre, Hong Kong. Patients: Subfertile patients undergoing frozen-thawed embryo transfer between July 2005 and December 2007. Main outcome measures: Clinical and ongoing pregnancy rates. Results: A total of 983 frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles performed during the study period were reviewed. The clinical pregnancy and ongoing pregnancy rates were 35% and 30%, respectively. Factors associated with successful outcome included younger maternal age (≤35 years) and 4 or more blastomeres at replacement, but not the method of insemination, the cause of subfertility, or the type of frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycle. The overall multiple pregnancy rate was 18%. For cycles with a single embryo replaced, embryos having 4-cell or higher stages at replacement gave an ongoing pregnancy rate of 25%, whereas those with less than 4 cells had a significantly lower ongoing pregnancy rate of 5% only. Blastomere lysis after thawing significantly reduced the clinical pregnancy and ongoing pregnancy rates of cycles with one embryo replaced. Conclusions Clinical pregnancy and ongoing pregnancy rates of frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles were 35% and 30%, respectively. Higher pregnancy rates were associated with younger maternal age (≤35 years), blastomere numbers of 4 or more, and no blastomere lysis after thawing.published_or_final_versio

Role of Baseline Antral Follicle Count and Anti-Mullerian Hormone in Prediction of Cumulative Live Birth in the First In Vitro Fertilisation Cycle: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis

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Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis in Hong Kong

This paper presents the first two successful cases of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis in Hong Kong and discusses the indications and the advantages over prenatal diagnosis. Patients should be informed about the procedure and extensively counselled about the possibility of misdiagnosis and the need for conventional prenatal diagnosis during pregnancy.published_or_final_versio

Experience of more than 100 preimplantation genetic diagnosis cycles for monogenetic diseases using whole genome amplification and linkage analysis in a single centre

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Evaluation of pre-stimulation anti-mullerian hormone level in predicting cumulative live-birth in IVF

Theme: Building Consensus in Gynecology, Infertility and Perinatology (BCGIP)BACKGROUND: Serum anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) level has been used as a useful marker of ovarian response in assisted reproduction. We evaluated for the first time the role of baseline AMH level in predicting cumulative pregnancy outcome during in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment. METHODS: We studied 320 women (aged 22-44) undergoing IVF with or without intracytoplasmic sperm injection using GnRH agonist long protocol. Baseline AMH levels on the day before commencing ovarian stimulation were analysed. The main outcome measures were cumulative live-birth, live-birth in the fresh cycle and ovarian response. RESULTS: There was a trend of higher median AMH levels in subjects achieving live-birth in the fresh …postprin